Leena Hannonen Fine Art

Art should do something to you.

Some artists paint what they see.
I paint what I couldn’t leave inside.

Horses, oceans, storms, ancient sea turtles — movement, resilience, freedom, and the stubborn refusal to break.

For more than 40 years, I’ve worked across paint, glass, photography, sculpture and design. Different materials. Same instinct:

Make something worth stopping for.

Explore the work

Some artists paint what they see.
I paint what I couldn’t leave inside.

Paintings

Some walls need more than decoration. Original paintings built from movement, emotion and the natural world — wild horses, restless oceans, impossible gardens and creatures that have survived for millions of years. Not painted to match the sofa. Because the wildest thing in nature is the will to keep going. But it is always free.

Mosaics

Some ideas need to be broken first. Glass, color, light and hundreds of individual pieces becoming something they couldn't become alone. From intimate works to large-scale installations, mosaics have been part of my work for decades.

Books

Apparently, not everything belongs on a canvas. Sometimes what I have to say ends up in a book. One turns everyday aggravation into something you can color instead of say out loud. The other documents a seven-year foreclosure fight, forged documents, and what happened when an artist decided not to go quietly.

The artist behind all of this

I'm Leena Hannonen, a Finnish-born artist who's spent more than four decades making things in paint, glass, bronze, photography and whatever else the idea demands. I don't have much interest in making things that simply fill space. I want them to have a pulse.